Mosaic of Alexander The Alexander Mosaic, dating from circa 100 BC, is a Roman floor mosaic originally from the House of the Faun inPompeii.[1] It depicts a battle between the armies of Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia and measures 2.72 x 5.13m (8 ft 11in x 16 ft 9in).[2] The original is preserved in the Naples National Archaeological Museum. The mosaic is believed to be a copy of an early 3rd century BC Hellenistic painting,[3] possibly by Philoxenos of Eretria.[4] The mosaic is made
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The Peloponnesian war was fought by the Greek city states of Athens and Sparta, and lasted between 431 BC to 404 BC. Before the war between the two had started they had agreed to a thirty year peace. They didn’t want to fight while recovering from the Persian War. Throughout this time Athens grew powerful and Sparta grew jealous and no longer trusted Athens. In 431 BC Sparta and Athens were on different sides of a conflict over the city, Corinth. Sparta declared war on Athens. The first war is sometimes
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Alexander the Great is one of the most extraordinary and inscrutable warriors of all time. By the age of 30 he was ruler of one of the largest empires ever known. From Greece to ancient India, Alexander single-handedly joined East and West together and forever changed the ancient world. Alexander the warrior is only one part of his legacy. He was a celebrated leader with a unique early life that drove his passion, admirable traits that set him apart from other rulers, and an unquestionable mark
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The decline of classical civilizations can be attributed to numerous factors such as internal conflicts, decreased size of armies, revolts, corruption, population decreases, declining tax revenues, economic decline, climate change, and external invasions. However, the one important factor that was instrumental in the decline and collapse was epidemic diseases which may have killed up to half of the population. The spread of epidemic diseases in the Roman Empire resulted in a shrinking population
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Thomas, AlishaHSHA 23385 Public Health in the Middle Ages 1. Wars will always have an affect on the community in which the war is being fought between. It can be financially, socially, economically, etc. if we look back at Rome during the middle ages the war affected their aqueducts which is their water system, meaning the war had an affect on the hygiene up keep of the city, ultimately when poor hygiene is involved in any situation it usually has some correlation with poor health overall affecting
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The Pantheon vs. The Parthenon The Pantheon and the Parthenon are both ancient temples. While the Pantheon was built in Rome to celebrate all the Roman gods, the Parthenon was built in Ancient Greece for the goddess Athena. The Parthenon pre-dates the Pantheon by about six centuries; it was built around 447-438 BCE, while the Pantheon was built in 126 CE. The Pantheon was originally built by Marcus Agrippa in 27 BC, during this time he was part of the senate for the third time. The
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is an awful way of portraying beauty to youth, so really, what exactly is beauty? There are many different views on what beauty is all over the world. Ancient Greeks introduced beauty as something that produces delightful reactions and sensations in the mind. In that time period, proportion and symmetry were beautiful to the human eye. The Ancient Greeks thought pale skin and golden colored hair were beautiful and showed prestige. Greek women would take the risk of lightening their skin with white
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poet and a tragic dramatist, who wrote three great tragedies about the Theban mythology. Antigone is known as the first of these plays. The play Antigone shows conflict between the king and a woman. The play was written in Athens, a Greek city The ancient Greeks developed Democracy which gave people to have power on making decisions based on their own beliefs. Antigone, daughter of Oedipus is visualized as a tragic heroine. Since women were unable to hold power during those times after the death
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Ancient Egyptian architecture The ancient Egyptian architecture is one of the most celebrated building styles and civilizations in the world history, Egyptians developed a wide variety of buildings and structures such as the pyramids, temples, palaces and monuments Spread along the River Nile (Blakemore, 100). Egypt being a country on a vast Sahara desert, timber was so scarce hence the two most prominent building materials were stones and sunbaked mud bricks. The stones include limestones, granite
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continue to dwarf any we have experienced until now. It has dramatically altered the way we live in our communities, their form and function, and, most critically, the way we plan and develop our way of life. In the reference to the documentary of “Ancient Futures” from Ladakh, Norberg-Hodge presented the term “development” as a movement from one situation to another. She added that she saw development in Ladakh as a process in the industrialized world with progress of the evolutionary force which created
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